FSN: Forensic Science News » AZ DPS http://www.forensicsguy.com/benchnotes and Opinion by a Real Forensic Scientist Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:00:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Arizona DPS Crime Lab Budget Crisis http://www.forensicsguy.com/benchnotes/arizona-dps-crime-lab-budget-crisis/ http://www.forensicsguy.com/benchnotes/arizona-dps-crime-lab-budget-crisis/#comments Fri, 14 May 2010 15:00:29 +0000 Forensics Guy http://www.forensicsguy.com/benchnotes/?p=1158 If AZ Prop 100 doesn’t pass, it will mean longer turn around at the state crime lab. Forensic science analysis costs money. If the state crime lab isn’t funded, agencies will have to find other cheaper (ie: private labs) alternatives:

If voters fail to approve Proposition 100, the Arizona Department of Public

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Another possibility is the closure of the Western Regional Crime Lab in Lake Havasu City and eliminating four positions there. Law enforcement agencies would then have to transport crime evidence to the Flagstaff lab.

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]]> http://www.forensicsguy.com/benchnotes/arizona-dps-to-close-western-regional-crime-lab/feed/ 0 Nation’s First and Only Independent Crime Laboratory System http://www.forensicsguy.com/benchnotes/nation%e2%80%99s-first-and-only-independent-crime-laboratory-system/ http://www.forensicsguy.com/benchnotes/nation%e2%80%99s-first-and-only-independent-crime-laboratory-system/#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:10:06 +0000 Forensics Guy http://www.forensicsguy.com/benchnotes/?p=455 The below article is sure to come as a surprise to defense attorneys in Arizona. For the longest time, the Arizona Department of Public Safety crime lab has argued that they are an “independent crime laboratory”, when in fact they are part of the state police department.

Granted there are many independent forensic

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]]> http://www.forensicsguy.com/benchnotes/nation%e2%80%99s-first-and-only-independent-crime-laboratory-system/feed/ 0 Funding sought for DPS crime lab http://www.forensicsguy.com/benchnotes/funding-sought-for-dps-crime-lab/ http://www.forensicsguy.com/benchnotes/funding-sought-for-dps-crime-lab/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:05:57 +0000 Forensics Guy http://www.forensicsguy.com/benchnotes/?p=354 The solution to the state crime lab’s budget deficit? Send the bill to speeders and drunk-drivers. There isn’t a conflict of interest in prosecutors and police scientists directly benefiting from guilty DUI verdicts, and speeding is there? Well there will be if the legislature gets it’s way.

In summary, in order

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